All the 2017 Emmy Award winners

Last night saw the annual Emmy Awards, considered the pinnacle of the Television award ceremonies. Once considered the poor stepchild to the more popular and bigger movie award ceremonies that take place earlier in the year, the Emmys has been growing in importance and popularity with the recent resurgence of high-quality productions that have come out recently.

All this is visible if you take a look at many of the acting nominees in this year’s awards, which were populated by big name movie stars who are now also making their mark in the TV world. As production values have picked up on TV, so have the budgets – and so it’s not surprising that many of these series have been able to garner interest from the best of Hollywood.

One of the big drivers of this growth though has been the streaming platforms who have been responsible for ensuring their respective television series remain of an exceptional quality. Chief among these are Netflix, Amazon and Hulu who collectively racked up more than 120 nominations this year between them. It should be no surprise that Netflix’s Stranger Things was one of the most nominated shows of the year with 18 nominations across all the categories, second only to Saturday Night Live and HBO’s Westworld which tied for 22 nominations.

So, just how did the 2017 Emmy awards pan out? Well, strangely enough, it was a very quiet night for those aforementioned big nominees. So just who took their thunder? Check out the full list of winners below (in bold) – which is essentially everything you need to know about the awards show minus the boring speeches:

Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or a Dramatic Special

Jean-Marc Vallée, Big Little Lies

Noah Hawley, Fargo

Ryan Murphy, Feud: Bette and Joan

Ron Howard, Genius

James Marsh, The Night Of

Steven Zaillian, The Night Of

Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or a Dramatic Special

David E. Kelly, Big Little Lies

Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror: San Junipero

Noah Hawley, Fargo, “The Law of Vacant Places”

Ryan Murphy, Feud: Bette and Joan, “And the Winner Is…”

Jaffe Cohen, Michael Zam, Ryan Murphy, Feud: Bette and Joan, “Pilot”

Richard Price and Steve Zaillian, The Night Of, “The Call of the Wild”

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

Full Frontal With Samantha Bee

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Late Night With Seth Meyers

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series

Derek Waters & Jeremy Konner, Drunk History

Andy Fisher, Jimmy Kimmel Live

Paul Pennolino, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Jim Hoskinson, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live

The big winners this year were instead Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and HBO’s Big Little Lies, which took home an incredible five awards each. In case you were wondering where Game of Thrones was on this list and why it was missing it’s because with their extended development period for this past season, they actually missed the nomination window for this year’s awards. Fear not though your beloved show will be back in the running next year.

Personally, I have yet to watch many of these shows, but I have no doubt that I will sometime in the next 5-10 years on some big binge sessions. As for you, any awards that surprised you or have you simply just stopped caring about these sort of things?

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